Likewise, Powerful Breeze is also unbeaten for trainer Hugo Palmer, while Frankie Dettori rides Anastarsia. Ananya, Boomer, Queen Daenerys, and, West End Girl, complete the field. Some of these names are new to pundits.

Limato is searching for a third successive strike in the Godolphin Stud & Stable Staff Awards Challenge Stakes, where only four others are there to tackle him – Mustashry, Shine So Bright, Oh This Is Us, and, Solar Gold.

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The £120,000 bet365 Old Rowley Cup Handicap, has a more healthy19 runners.

It is such a serious case, including charges of conspiracy to defraud Racing Victoria, engaging in the torturing, abusing, overworking, and, terrifying of a thoroughbred racehorse, causing unreasonable pain and suffering.

Weir and three other people will start their hearing at Melbourne Magistrates Court, October 23.

Weir, who won the 2015 Melbourne Cup when Michelle Payne famously led Prince Of Penzance to the line, has been under investigation by police since three electronic jiggers – devices used to electronically shock horses – were found in a bedroom in his Ballarat home in January.

Weir and two other men were arrested but released without charge, following the January 29 raids.

Weir was later disqualified for four years by the racing appeals and disciplinary board after pleading no contest to four charges, three of them in relation to the possession of the electronic apparatus on his licensed premises. The other was for conduct prejudicial to the image of racing.